Manhunt for Boston Marathon bomb suspect No. 2

One suspect dead, MIT police officer killed as Boston drama heightens

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Federal agents descend on the home of a suspect-at-large in the Boston Marathon bombing and nearby Watertown shooting in Cambridge, Mass.

WATERTOWN, Mass. (MarketWatch) — Massachusetts authorities said they believe the 19-year-old suspect in the deadly marathon bombings was still in the state, continuing one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history and paralyzing an entire metropolis as officials halted public transportation, closed schools and advised residents to stay locked indoors.

Police searched door-to-door for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers alleged to have exploded two homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 175. Images of the curly-haired suspect were shown all day on national TV and online.

Authorities identified the other suspect as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown, Mass., according to a U.S. law-enforcement official.

Both brothers were believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer during Thursday night’s chaotic series of events.

“We believe this to be a terrorist,” said Boston Police Chief Ed Davis. “We believe this to be a man who’s come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody.”

The hunt for the younger Tsarnaev prompted a broad shutdown of public facilities in the Boston area earlier Friday.

The Federal Aviation Administration closed the low-level airspace above roughly 4 miles in northwest Greater Boston as the search goes on. Logan International Airport in Boston tweeted that it “is open and operating under heightened security.” It urged fliers to check their flight status before heading to the airport.

The younger brother was the suspect seen wearing a white cap backward in video and photos released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday. The release prompted a large number of tips from the public, federal officials said. The older brother was wearing a black cap in the video and photos.See a slide show of scenes from Boston at WSJ.com.

The younger Tsarnaev is a student at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, university spokesman Robert Lamontagne said. The university is located in southeast Massachusetts, about an hour south of Boston.

“Out of an abundance of caution, the campus has been closed,” he said in an email. “Students, staff and faculty who have not already evacuated have been told to shelter in place. No one is being allowed on campus.”

Authorities said the older brother was critically injured in the shootout and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where he was pronounced dead. Richard Wolfe, the hospital’s chief of emergency medicine, said the man had multiple injuries from what appeared to be both an explosive device and gunshot wounds.

Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday morning briefed President Barack Obama on the latest in the manhunt. An administration official said the president and Vice President Joe Biden convened a meeting around 9:45 a.m. in the White House Situation Room with his top national-security officials, to follow up on briefings he had received through the night.

Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), who sits on the House homeland security and intelligence committees, said he hopes the fugitive is captured peacefully. “I’m hoping they get the second guy alive and can interrogate him, so we can figure out, did they do it on their own or are they affiliated with a larger group?”

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